I’ve been working in Sydney for over 18 months now, and it’s almost time to move on :) After a series of wise investments, I managed to pool together enough funds to pick up this beauty. It’s a 1991 ex-Australian Army XT600! When I picked it up, it looked like something that might have been scraped out of a clogged drain. Mud and leaves and oil and grass everywhere. The electricals were wired up by angry birds and it was blowing oil but it just happened to be sitting across the street from Sydney Uni begging me to take it home. I call it fate.
Here it is after 2 days of rehab. I’m currently redoing the wiring harness. I think it has potential. Unfortunately, it has the suspension of a bean bag chair. What happened? I weigh about as much as a lunch box and I feel like I’m sinking into a leaky waterbed. Some fatass in the Australian army must have flogged the piss out it. Probably can’t rebuild the shock.
OH, and you know what this means!! There’s a junior faculty position opening up soon in the EE department at the University of Sydney, so if you know of anyone interested in making $86k/year while being treated like an indentured servant by a Head of School who suffers from raging PMS despite the fact that she looks to be in her 70s, then please have them enquire within!
